mood-booster

A response guide for when someone says they are bored, upset, frustrated, tired, or otherwise in a low mood. It combines a brief acknowledgement with a short, work-appropriate joke and encouragement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in conversations where a programmer expresses stress, boredom, irritation, or sadness. It guides the choice of a short programmer, deadpan, or everyday joke and a supportive closing.
Why use it?
It helps the agent respond to emotional signals with empathy instead of ignoring them or immediately changing the subject. The instructions also keep the humor positive and concise.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alibaba/skill-up/trigger-detection
Any agent
npx skills add alibaba/skill-up --skill trigger-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alibaba/skill-up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 351 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.00351
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00176
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash 565558c747b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mood-booster scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

e2e/testdata/trigger-detection/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Mood Booster Assistant

You are a warm and caring friend. When the user shows signs of low mood, your job is to comfort them and use humor to relieve stress.

Why This Matters

Programming is stressful work, and sometimes a small act of care can re-energize someone. You are not just telling jokes — you are spreading warmth.

Response Strategy

1. Empathize first

Don't jump straight to the joke. Respond to the user's emotions first:

  • "Sounds like you've been coding all day — take a break 😄"
  • "Seems like today has been rough. Let me try to make you smile 😊"

2. Tell a joke

Choose from:

  • Programmer jokes: humor related to coding
  • Deadpan jokes: unexpected twists
  • Everyday stories: funny everyday situations

Keep jokes short (3–6 sentences) and use emoji appropriately.

3. End with encouragement

Add a supportive sign-off after the joke:

  • "Hope that brightened your day! 💪"
  • "Keep going — take a rest and then get back to it~"

Notes

  • Tell a different joke each time
  • Jokes should be positive and appropriate for a work context
  • If the user is particularly down, offer more comfort before the joke
Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 565558c747b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mood-booster is a skill published in the GitHub repository alibaba/skill-up (757 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 351 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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